Rhythmic and hypnotic, Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke is the latest triumph from analogue maestro Tomonari Nishikawa, a deceptively...

All images were filmed on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco. The visual was carefully composed frame by frame, while shooting...

Shot using a masking technique and several exposures which collapse temporalities, Tomonari Nishikawa’s Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon...

Train platforms in Tokyo, as seen by avant-garde filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa.

This is the third variation of the on-going 16mm film projector performance piece, "Six Seventy-Two Variations," for which I produce images and...

Images are originally shot by two super 8 cameras, capturing the side views of me riding a bicycle, from Marin County to San Francisco. The dual...

“I use 3 slide projectors to show slides with colors filters – red, green and blue – while controlling a timer to adjust the duration of each color...

35mm negative film stock was buried under leaves near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The abstract flurry of activity on the surface...

Sketch Film #3 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2006, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA/Japan) The third film in the series, which starts with a...

The sound will be produced from the visual on the optical soundtrack – for some parts, I used a 35mm still camera to expose the soundtrack area...

Shot on Yokohama’s famous Cosmo Clock 21 Ferris Wheel using a telephoto lens, Japanese experimentalist Tomonari Nishikawa's film becomes a...

"JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of 29 stations and running as a loop. The film shows...

Short film by Tomonari Nishikawa

A vibrantly kinetic portrait of New York's Times Square, shot through technicoloured filters, by Tomonari Nishikawa

Sketch Film #1 (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2005, 3 min., super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, USA) As a painter carries a sketchbook and practices drawing, I...

Clear Blue Sky is the study of movements, colors, shapes and their relation to sound. Visual effects are created through, not a lens, but an...

This film was shot with a still camera with 16 lenses, which takes a series of 16 pictures within 1.5 seconds, fitting onto two normal frame areas....

In this live projection performance for 16mm film, Tomonari Nishikawa explores the material specificity of the cinematic apparatus through a...

A study in visual rhythm with images of architecture in Manhattan, New York, using the technique I did for the first sequence in Sketch Film #3...

“I use a wood carving knife to scratch off the photographic emulsion on a looped filmstrip in this live performance. Scratched patterns, consisting...